// hacking the interstate and road system... (via digg) Meet The Guy Who Drove Across The U.S. In A Record 28 Hours 50 Minutes http://jalopnik.com/meet-the-guy-who-drove-across-the-u-s-in-a-record-28-h-1... "After Alex Roy set the transcontinental driving record, he waited a year to come forward – until the statute of limitations expired on every single illegal act he committed. Ed and Dave waited less than three weeks." (a great story involving strategic preparation, musical flow... risky, daring, record-breaking in mass surveillance context) // everything electronic potentially bugged and networked? // wat if this is the unaccounted for norm instead of exception DON'T BREW THAT CUPPA! Your kettle could be a SPAMBOT (via drudge) Russian report says Chinese appliances hide Wifi slurping spam-spreaders http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/29/dont_brew_that_cuppa_your_kettle_cou... // security from solar flare & solar wind protection, CME EMP-like. // also moves into metaphysics, 'reading the signs' a Rorschach test... 28 solar flares in the last seven days -- video (via drudge) http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-solar-flare-20131031,0,7... 'A sunspot is an area of the sun where the magnetic fields have gotten all twisted up. "You get a tangled bunch of magnetic fields, and they get too tangled and too stressed, they end up erupting," said Holly Gilbert, a solar physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.' // excellent site to learn language of sun signs... // varying patterns akin to observing man on moon photographs and videos via solar telescope http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandra4/ (also, consider Van Gogh's sunflowers in this context) https://www.google.com/search?q=Van+Gogh+sunflowers+original&tbm=isch This is how you blow up a planet, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson http://sploid.gizmodo.com/astrostud-neil-degrasse-tyson-explains-how-to-blow... Left Or Right Tail Wags Elicit Different Emotional Responses From Dogs http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/left-or-right-tail-wags-elicit-different-emotional-responses-from-dogs/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_r1p_us_ot_w#close-modal (via digg) '"Where this paper is a step forward is to show that those [brain hemisphere] side biases are actually read or interpreted by another member of the species," she said. "We have very little if any other evidence of that."' Designing an acoustic diode // metamaterial http://phys.org/news/2013-11-acoustic-diode.html "How the Acoustic Diode Would Work: Sound waves easily flow in two directions. Yet in nature, total reflection of sound in one direction is known to occur at the air-water interface. This gave investigators the idea that an acoustical diode could be constructed by transmitting acoustic waves using an asymmetric prism to create total unidirectional reflection." ¶ ½ Ü